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May 26, 2026

Reviewed Pisces Iscariot by Smashing Pumpkins

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“I love Pisces Iscariot what a goated album. Extra points for landslide cover :0”

Favorite track · Whir

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May 26, 2026

Reviewed Woodland by The Paper Kites

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“A sunny morning on a tired day. Like today!”

Favorite track · The Mortal Boy King

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May 26, 2026

Reviewed 521 by Luca DiGrigoli

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“My debut album! While it isn't all really what I'd reflect on myself as a songwriter anymore, it's a period piece on the person I used to be, some of which carries into/shaped who I am today. My debut studio album. I wish mini-me could see where I was today. I hope he'd be proud.”

Favorite track · I Can't Be The One

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May 26, 2026

Reviewed The Kiss and Tell Show! by Luca DiGrigoli

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“I wrote this album and am very proud of it and think it's really good. "when the magic was gone, and the music'd faded, and things that you saw turned to things that you didn't see as well, did they kiss and tell?"”

Favorite track · Kiss and Tell

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May 15, 2026

Reviewed Introducing by The Bean Tones

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“I've loved you from day... into night... from the moment I first gazed in your eyes..." <3”

Favorite track · Day Into Night

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Apr 10, 2026

Reviewed A Matter of Time - The Final Hour by Laufey

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“I love this album so so so so much already, it pulls at every heartstring i possess, especially Carousel. But let's talk about what's new because we know about what we already had: I Wait, I Wait, I Wait has been on repeat since this morning, a new Laufey song for me to feel down to the core. "I wait for the sorrow, The blue of tomorrow, Regrets of yesterday" and "The price of a cynic is joy for just a minute" are modes I've lived in far too long for me to not shed a tear listening to this. On top of that Lafuey personally decided she hated me by also releasing I'll Forget About You (In Time). Why she felt the need to run my heart over with a pickup truck, I couldn't tell you. Wowowowow all around. Madwoman is so much fun, How I Get is poetry, this is the extended album I could have wanted and then some. AND THE CASSETTE IS GREEN!!!! HOLY PEAK!!!!”

Favorite track · I Wait, I Wait, I Wait

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Apr 10, 2026

Reviewed ¡$uper! Mercado by 2 Skinnee J's

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“PLUTOOOOOOOO IS A PLANET!!!!!!”

Favorite track · Pluto

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Apr 9, 2026

Reviewed Major Arcana by Speedy Ortiz

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“the lyricism on this omg holy peak no notes don't even have a better way to describe”

Favorite track · Plough

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Apr 9, 2026

Reviewed When Summer Comes by Field School

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“This track reminds me of spring 2025, first time I really felt like myself tbh. also my best friend yash :)”

Favorite track · I’m Starting to Feel a Bit Like Myself Again

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Apr 9, 2026

Reviewed Songs From a $7 Synthesizer by Cliffdiver

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“This is everything I love about music. including a photo of the portasound makes for such a sweet sentiment, I can't even describe what feeling this evokes.”

Favorite track · Alive Again

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Apr 9, 2026

Reviewed Transatlanticism by Death Cab for Cutie

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“Another album of doom and despair that is so important to me and who I am as a person. I can feel the emotions of this album with every bone in my body, especially recently in my life, and for that I will always treasure it. This is also the first album on CD i played in my discman”

Favorite track · Transatlanticism

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Apr 9, 2026

Reviewed Typical of Me by Laufey

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“Okay, we need to talk about this. I discovered Laufey on a rainy day in 2021, tiny dorm window open with music playing out of my speaker as I always did at the time in 505A. The smell of petrichor infused with this song hitting my ears for the first time was religious. From there I was a fan of "luh-fey," listening to the tracks on this album on repeat to this day. Knowing this before Laufey blew up is crazy. Like the movies is probably like the single most important song to ever exist ever to me.”

Favorite track · Like the Movies

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Apr 9, 2026

Reviewed Everything I Know About Love by Laufey

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“I blinked and suddenly i had a valentine, and it was Laufey. I think of this album and what it means to me SO often it's not even funny. and to even TRY and pick a favorite track on this? fucked up and twisted. I can't do it. Right now I am feeling very 'Hi,' so I'm putting that but do not be fooled. Everything here is so special to me oh my god i love you Laufey okay thanks bye”

Favorite track · Hi

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Apr 9, 2026

Reviewed Careless by Stephen Bishop

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“Careless is feel-good style music. Not much of a concept that I picked up on my first thorough listen, but I have opinions of every song. I was introduced to this song by “On and On,” a song that I’ve had in my head since the beginning of Fall 2022. I never took it upon myself to listen to the whole thing. This album has such a strong start. After that, what this album does well is great, but it’s weaker tracks disappointed me.”

Favorite track · On and On

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Apr 9, 2026

Reviewed In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel

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“(this is my old review from when I first listened to the album) In The Aeroplane Over The Sea” is a helluva concept of an album. There is so much going on here. It sounds to me like this was created over a couple of days because the band members just kinda felt like it, did minimal polish to make sure its listeners wouldn’t die, and put it out. I’m obsessed with it. It gives this album such a home-grown feel that I really like. I don’t know much more about the band, but this very well may have convinced me to listen to more of them. Also, this cover is surely something to look at. There is nothing I can think of that I ‘don’t like’ about this album, which is awesome. I wouldn’t put ALL of these songs on my playlist for sure, but I like them all, and for that I give this album a 4.5”

Favorite track · Two-Headed Boy

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Apr 9, 2026

Reviewed Personal Problems... by J and the Woolen Stars

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“This album made me cry for the first time in a really, really long time. I don't think I've heard something as gorgeous and delicate as it since... I can't even think of a comparison right now. Everything about this is done in the best way I could have ever imagined it. This album feels like love, it feels like loss, it feels like home.”

Favorite track · She Was a Friend to Me

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Apr 9, 2026

Reviewed LOOK! I’m Alive by Quinn XCII

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“It's a new Mustard Mike. You can tell he's pivoting into a new life after his voice issues, and becoming a chill 'family man' guy, while sticking to the lyricism that made him who he is. I like this shift, and it's surprising to see that people don't think it's good work of his. Don't get me wrong, I hold a lot of nostalgia to the big three (The Story of Us, From Michigan with Love, and Letter to my Younger Self), but different DOES NOT MEAN BAD!!! This is so chill and it's #1 driving music, let's be so fr. Haters are wrong.”

Favorite track · Yellow Brick Road

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Apr 9, 2026

Reviewed Love Drunk by Boys Like Girls

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“Boys Like Girl's sophomore album is SOOO 2009, I literally get Victorious vibes from HeartHeartHeartbreak. You can tell what kind of music was popular and what they tried to pivot into. I also didn't know that this album had a fucking TAYLOR SWIFT feature?! In any case I love Boys Like Girls always, but their first album will always take the cake for me no contest. This one's alright and has a few tracks I put on now and again.”

Favorite track · She’s Got a Boyfriend Now

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Apr 9, 2026

Reviewed OK Computer by Radiohead

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“"ok," said the computer of agony doom and despair. this makes for a good listen even when not under any of those conditions. I like the phone mic girl's cover of no surprises.”

Favorite track · No Surprises

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Apr 6, 2026

Reviewed Quinn XCII Presents: Mustard Mike's Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner by Quinn XCII

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“good shit all around.”

Favorite track · Pasadena